Photographs of the pieces... show an endowed, muscular prince in a series of sexual positions with the woman, one of many at his beck and call.

Prince Jefri, as it happens, begins a court battle next week against financial advisors who he accuses of mishandling his fortune, and underselling his Long Island estate.

Naturally, he is not too happy about the publicity his new pieces of "art" are garnering, especially in light of the impending court case.

Fearing that his polygamous lifestyle and the statues in particular might reflect badly on the Prince as he goes to trial, his lawyers requested any mention of the statues be banned by those involved in the lawsuit.

The presiding judge obviously agreed; he issued a gag order after photographs of the statues were published extensively last week.

"Prince Jefri was entitled to have multiple wives and families, and he did so," the court papers said. "Under Islamic law and practice this was legitimate and proper. However, polygamy is offensive to many Americans, and trial testimony about Prince Jefri's personal life may be prejudicial to him."

And the story also clearly explains why Prince Jefri's profile was so popular on Bloomberg on Friday. At first his name seemed conspicuously random among the predictable identities that peppered the Most Viewed Profile list, like Bernanke, Julian Robertson and Obama. But now we know exactly why he ranked tenth on the ladder.